In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given ...trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While enclosed shopping malls suspended space, time, and weather, Disneyland went one step further and suspended reality. Any geog...raphic, cultural, or mythical location, whether supplied by fictional texts (Tom Sawyer's Island), historical locations (New Orleans Square), or futuristic projections (Space Mountain), could be reconfigured as a setting for entertainment. Shopping malls easily adapted this appropriation of "place" in the creation of a specialized theme environment. In Scottsdale, the Borgata, an open-air shopping mall set down in the flat Arizona desert, reinterprets the medieval Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano with piazza and scaled-down towers (made of real Italian bricks).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity t...o labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If modernism had tried to anchor in consciousness a centre which could no longer hold--the conscience of the heroic, socially alie...nated artist--postmodernism had shown us an even darker side of modernity and the aporias of the aesthetic. It had shown that there is nothing for consciousness to be anchored to: no universal ground of truth, justice, or reason, so that consciousness itself is thus "decentred," no longer origin, author, location of intentional agency but a function through which impersonal forces pass and intersect--Dover Beach displaced by an international airport lounge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theore...tically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my wish, and may it be the wish of all, that this great building may continue to be to all your population that which it sho...uld be--an edifice opening its doors from night to night, calling your people here away from the care of business to those enjoyments, and pursuits, and entertainments which develop the souls of men, which will have power to inspire those whose lives are heavy with daily toil, and in its magnificent and enchanting presence lift them for a time out of these dull things into those higher things where men should live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »